Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] FAA news

["Jim Locke" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Man, that's ugly (on the MN authorities and the politics it sure sounds they're playing the the convention and bridge issues and such).

Conservatives generally favor saving money.  Unfortunately, this is often as the expense of the public.
How many destroyed lives or homes are worth saving say a few billion dollars?
How bad does the transit system need to get before heads will roll and the sh** hits the fan?
How many more things will be build and repaired in Iraq before we put the priority on this country?

Keeping the war going on and having Bush be so stubborn about things and neglect improvements the U.S. needs and stick his nose up to so many things so many people need is disgraceful.

Until the administration (NOT so much Congress) answers questions like those from above, people have every right to be upset.

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Vern Green wrote:

Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minnesota
Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon
Rep. Jerry Costello, D-Illinois

Don't Republicans want to protect us from reckless corporations? Maybe not -- and I really mean that.

Don't be ridiculous. There are 283 other democrats in the House of Representatives and the Senate, would you also say that they do not care to protect us since they are not on this list?

The list might be all Democrats because they are the majority party, but the problems with Republicans run much deeper.  You should see what the NTSB (led by Republican appointee) is doing to cover up the mistakes that led to the bridge collapse up here.  Did you know that NTSB announced confidently on January 15 that the collapse was completely unique and due to a very strange design flaw that would not be found elsewhere?  Did you know that a bridge in St. Cloud -- just 75 miles away from the other bridge -- was shut down (permanently) a couple of weeks ago because of exactly the same problem?  Did you know that we have a Republican governor who refused to fund bridge repairs?  We have the Republican convention here in a few months and NTSB will be sure not to finish their report (which might end up being fine) until after the election is over, not just the primary.  What's taking them so long?  It's politically convenient. The NTSB leadership (Mark Rosenker, specifically) is purely political and they don't care about us.

For a few years now the Republican thing has been to promise to protect us from terrorism.  But protect us from corporations?  No.  They have only worked to reduce protective regulations of all kinds.  Can you name one thing that Republicans have led that would protect us from corporations that would pollute our water or air, for example?  Or protect us from any other harmful thing that a corporation might do?  I don't think so.

Have they even protected us against terrorist attacks?  Certainly not abroad.  In this country?  Well, it's hard to say because such attacks have always occurred very infrequently.  If we look at attacks by Islamists, we have the 1993 attack, then the 2001 attack, so I guess we could say that we are due for another Islamic terrorist attack on US soil in 2009 and that no attacks were expected in the past 7 years.  So maybe the net effect of Republican governance was to do nothing on the home front, to increase terrorism abroad, and to waste hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars on a useless war that has led to nothing good.

Mike

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